June 12, 2008
Grey Hautaluoma/Stephanie Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4997/0668
grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov
Lynnette Madison/Josh Byerly
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov, bill.j.byerly@nasa.gov
CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-037
NASA AWARDS CONSTELLATION PROGRAM TECHNICAL SUPPORT CONTRACT
WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in Houston a
contract for technical support services for the Constellation
Program, which is developing new spacecraft to travel beyond low
Earth orbit. The Constellation fleet includes the Orion crew vehicle,
the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles, and the Altair human lunar
lander. The five-year contract has a base two-year value of $17.6
million, with a total potential value of $49.5 million if three
one-year extension options are exercised.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. will provide the resources to conduct tasks
in support of the Constellation Program systems engineering and
integration, and test and evaluation. Tasks include the definition,
analysis, assessment, engineering study and documentation of
operations concepts, technical and programmatic requirements and
processes, and system implementations in support of NASA-led
activities.
The two-year base period of the indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and firm-fixed
price contract begins Aug. 1. Phase-in of the contract begins July 1.
Work for the contract will be performed at NASA's Johnson Space Center
in Houston. Subcontractors include Orbital Sciences Corp. in
Greenbelt, Md., and ARES Corporation in Houston.
For more information about the contract, visit:
http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/CTSC
For information about NASA's Constellation program, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/constellation
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